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Boating the largest lake in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire Dept. of Safety Division of Safety Services / Navigation Chart Lake Winnipesaukee.
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This is a 1958/1978 navigational chart of Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, printed on behalf of the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission for the use of recreational boaters. It contains updated content that reflects changes seen in the 1966-1967 edition of the chart, including additional fuel pumps at landings, and a tempting passage at the northwest point of Barndoor Island is marked 'Not Navigable.' The chart's title does not indicate a date, however, suggesting a later state of the chart. The present example is laminated, which we believe was done by the chart's distributor between 1970 and 1978. (more details)
Foundational manuscript plan of colonial Saigon.
Batiments Civils Projet de Ville de 500,000 Ames Saîgon.
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This is Lucien Florent Paul Coffyn's 1862 manuscript masterplan of Saigon - the first and most significant map of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City). Coffyn was the French military engineer tasked with transforming a war-torn fort into a model colonial capital. Following the 1861 French occupation of Saigon, authorities resolved to build a new city on the wartorn site at a monumental scale, reflecting boundless imperial ambition. Coffyn, driven by an unwavering belief in the colony's promise, envisioned a grand, European-style metropolis designed to accommodate half a million residents across 25 square kilometers. The present map - exquisitely drafted and signed by both Coffyn and Vice Admiral Louis Bonard, Governor of Cochinchina - is the likely original manuscript submitted for formal approval. Over the subseqeunt decades, Coffyn's street layout and placement of major sites were implemented with fidelity, though not comprehensively, marking this as the foundational document of colonial Saigon. It stands as a unique testament to French imperial planning and an unparalleled artifact of Asian colonial urbanism. (more details)
First large-scale view of Paris published in Paris.
Paris 1660.
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This is the only known example of Nöel Cochin and Nicolas Berey's 1660 view of Paris - the earliest known large-format view of Paris published in Paris (an earlier large view was issued in Amsterdam). This view is likely a proof state or perhaps a study for a larger view of the same issued two years later in 1662 (c.f. Boutier #105). (more details)
Pan-Eurasian Unity?
ツラン民族分佈地圖 / [Ethnographic Card of Turanians (Uralo-Altaians)].
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An intriguing piece of ethnographic Interwar-WWII propaganda, this bilingual Japanese-English map, based on a 1933 manuscript by Kato Ryūshirō, displays the purported peoples of the 'Turanian' community. The present example was printed in 1943 in Hungary by the Turan Federation of Hungary and the Royal Hungarian Defense Cartography Institute. (more details)
Pavie and the growth of French influence in Indo-china.
Indo-Chine Carte de la Mission Pavie.
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This is the 1914 edition of the general map illustrating Southeast Asia, comprising modern-day Thailand (Siam), Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The focus is the theater of the Missions Pavie, a series of groundbreaking espionage, reconnaissance, and political expeditions led by the eccentric adventurer Auguste Jean-Marie Pavie from 1879 to 1895. (more details)
Struggle between France and Austria for dominance in Italy.
Cursus Padi per Longobardiam a Fonte usque a ostia cum fluminibus que in illum se exonerant et adjacentibus Ducatibus ac Principatibus quos interluit et qui confinis sunt, Tribus Combinandis tabellis...
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This is Mattheus Seutter's stunning c. 1734 large-scale three-sheet map of the Po River Valley, covering much of northern Italy. The map was issued during the War of the Polish Succession (1733 - 1735). It does not reflect struggles in Poland directly but rather the wider strategic struggle between France and Austria for dominance in Europe and Italy. (more details)
Striking 19th Century Manuscript Map of Stockholm.
Plan von Stockholm.
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This is August Szontagh's remarkable 1842 manuscript map of Stockholm, Sweden. The map captures Stockholm during a period of expansion and civic infrastructure reform. Though likely academic rather than administrative, this plan exhibits the meticulous style we've come to associate with military engineering draftsmanship. (more details)
Distinctive map based on Mercator.
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
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This is Giuseppe Rosaccio’s 1598 double-hemisphere map of the world. Although it was included in Rosaccio's 1598 edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, it is not a Ptolemaic map. Unlike most of the maps in Rosaccio's Ptolemy, which are amended versions of those that appeared in the 1561 Ruscelli Ptolemy, this one is superficially a reduction of the 1587 Mercator world map, but with parallel latitude lines, presenting a more pronounced, elongated South America and Africa - a unique and visually distinctive projection. (more details)
Grandest 17th century map of Corsica.
Isola di Corsica.
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This is a superb example of Vincenzo Coronelli's 1692 map of Corsica, one of the most beautifully engraved large-scale depictions of the island of the 17th century. (more details)
Gilded Souverains Souvenirs.
Souverains et chefs d'etats.
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This 1903 gilded chromolithograph, illustrated by Henri Bressler, presents portraits of forty-six heads of state from around the world. Designed for distribution to shoppers at the Bon Marché department store, it helped to familiarize shoppers with leading international figures while celebrating the French alliance with Tsarist Russia. (more details)
Salvaging Venetian civic pride.
La Veneta Laguna antica e moderna...
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This is a finely engraved 1799 map of Venice produced by Teodoro Viero and Antonio Sandi. It was published at a low point in the city's history, soon after the republic was sublimated into the Austrian Empire, and the map can be seen as a subtle projection of civic pride and national identity in the face of foreign occupation. (more details)
Tehran, before the Ayatollah.
Central Map of Tehran.
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This is a 1961 Abbas Sahab city plan or map of central Tehran, Iran. It is one of the few obtainable maps of Tehran published in Tehran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. (more details)
André Beaumont flying a hydro-airplane over the English Channel.
Andre Beaumont sur Hydroaeroplane Donnet-Lévêque.
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This is a 1912 Marguerite 'Gamy' Montaut pochoir view of André Beaumont flying a Donnet-Lévêque seaplane over the English Channel. The image illustrates Buatmont crossing the Channel towards England while French battleships steam in the opposite direction. (more details)
Transition from Ironclads to Dreadnoughts.
Our British Navy - Past and Present.
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This 1882 chromolithograph by Emrik and Binger depicts a Royal Navy first-rate ship of the line of the pre-Dreadnought era. The image appeared in the contemporaneous magazine The Boy's Own Paper; it demonstrates advances in not only naval (and printing) technology but also the development of youth literature, as well as the inculcation of patriotic and 'manly' virtues in the Victorian era. (more details)
Cycling around Algiers at the turn of the 20th century.
Carte Vélocipédique des Environs d'Alger.
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This is a 1909 Émile Lowe cycling map of the environs of Algiers, Algeria. The map documents the introduction of cycling to colonial Algeria and how, there, as elsewhere, cycling evolved into a popular pastime that encouraged the development of good roads, ultimately paving the way for the automobile age. (more details)
Riyadh in the Midst of Transformation.
مدينة الرياض [Riyadh] / Map of Riyadh.
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This is Ghazy Abdulwahed Makky's 1985 large-format bilingual (Arabic-English) city plan or map of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It captures the city during a period of tremendous growth, as a new urban plan was being implemented to meet the city's rapidly accumulating population. (more details)
12,000 Peaks of Mt. Kumgang.
朝鮮金剛山交通大鳥瞰圖 / [Large Bird's Eye View of Transportation to Korea's Mt. Kumgang].
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This is a striking large-format 1929 panoramic pictorial view of Mt. Kumgang, Korea, produced in the Japanese colonial period by the era's greatest view artist, Yoshida Hatsusaburō. In addition to highlighting the area's stunning natural beauty, it also reflects its appropriation by Japan as a colonial tourist site. (more details)
'...worthy of a place in any nobleman's library' - Australian Mail
Stanford's Library Map of Australasia.
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The astounding 1859 first edition of A. Kieth Johnston and Edward Stanford's large-format Library Map of Australasia, comprising Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea. This is arguably the largest and most detailed general map of Australia to appear in the 19th century, issued a month before the official establishment of Queensland in June 1859. (more details)
One of the earliest obtainable maps to focus on all of Manhattan Island.
Map of the City and County of New York, with the adjacent country.
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This is an example of David Burr's rare 1840 map of New York City. This is one of the earliest commercial maps to specifically illustrate the full island of Manhattan. (more details)
Classic Dutch Gold Age Map Africa: Old Color highlighted with Gold!
Africae nova descriptio. Auct: Guiljelmo Blaeuw.
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This is a superb, original-color, second-state example of Willem Blaeu's 1630 carte à figure atlas map of Africa, in its 1640 Latin-text atlas edition. It is one of the most desirable maps of the Dutch Golden Age. Norwich hailed it rightly as 'one of the most decorative and popular of all the early maps of Africa.' (more details)